Filmmakers went looking for the instrument while making the movie's 1989 sequel, but even now it's nowhere to be found.

According to Gibson, "When it comes to guitars in movies, no guitar was more iconic or more influential than the Cherry Red Gibson ES-345 used by Marty McFly to play “Johnny B Goode” in the movie Back to the Future. That scene has been cited by countless artists as the moment they knew they wanted to play guitar."

The search for Marty McFly's missing cherry red guitar is underway after it mysteriously vanished several decades ago, and the hope is that it could be recovered without a DeLorean. Gibson — the brand behind the iconic ES-345 that star Michael J.